A2: Two Hotel Infinities can fit into one building; an infinite sum can be finite.
Ideas and stories for Card2
Do you notice how kids...
...Get sad when metaphors (stories, roleplay) are replaced with pattern, property and other formal work too early? (Chimera activity and grid sorting)
...Have to touch objects to talk math about them? (apple math)
...Strive to find a hard, challenging example, problem, puzzle?
...TIMTOWTDI: find out that There Is More Than One Way To Do It (Mike's loom story, drawing squares in different ways, making hearts in different ways)
...burst into chanting snippets of math they find lovely or valuable?
..."play lawyer" with words, paying extra careful attention to details of descriptions and definitions?
...intrinsically include math concepts into a roleplay?
...Can't perform even mundane tasks after prolonged crying, extreme joy, love and other strong emotions?
...Are happy to embrace algebra once counting becomes too tedious?
...Keep the repeating pattern or structure for a while, then break it just to do something differently?
Math behavior bingo
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